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History · Amador Township

Amador Township’s post office opened in 1856, and 44% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Point Douglas to Superior Military Road: Deer Creek Section. Below: maps from 1983 on and the census since 1860.

1856first post office
1on the National Register
44%homes built before 1940
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How Amador Township began

When was Amador Township founded?

1856

The Amador Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Amador (1856), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 61 in 18602020 census: 842170 years
Founding year: the first Amador Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Amador Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Amador Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Amador Township’s homes were built before 1964.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Amador Township’s history is told.

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The story

How Amador Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Amador Township.

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Amador Township was organized in 1858. Amador is a name derived from Spanish meaning "lover".

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Amador Township, 1856 to 1983

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1856Post officeThe Amador post office opens
  3. 1887Post officeThe Almelund post office opens
  4. 1893Post officeThe Amador post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1973BuiltPoint Douglas to Superior Military Road: Deer Creek Section is built
  7. 1983On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Amador Township on the map in 1983

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Amador Township.

Amador Township on the 1983 USGS map1983Sunrise sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Amador Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Amador Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1991
Point Douglas to Superior Military Road: Deer C…
Point Douglas to Superior Military Road: Deer Creek Section, built 1973
Structures

Architectural styles listings

Earth Road1
Point Douglas to Superior Military Road: Deer Creek SectionEarth Road · Built 1973

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Amador Township, census by census

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Grew from 61 people in 1860 to 885 in 2010, more than tenfold.

16 censuses, 1860–2010.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Amador Township’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Another post office, Amador, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Amador
1856–1893
Almelund
1887–today
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Almelund
1cemetery inside Amador Township
Almelund

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Sunrise TownshipIts storyC+Shafer TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townChisago Lake Township1 historic placeC+

Questions about Amador Township’s history

What year was Amador Township founded?

The Amador Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Amador Township?

One place: the Point Douglas to Superior Military Road: Deer Creek Section (listed 1991).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.